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N. Korean leader meets delegation from South

Group offered condolences on death of father

By Choe Sang-Hun

 |  New York Times  

  December 27, 2011

Kim Jong Un, the newly anointed leader of North Korea, met Monday with a private delegation of prominent South Koreans, his first face-to-face encounter with any visitors from the estranged South since assuming the top spot a week ago when his father’s death was announced. North Korean media announced he had been appointed to the top post of the ruling party, another step in what appeared to be a choreographed sequence of events meant to show that he was assuming all the key positions held by his father, Kim Jong Il, the longtime ruler of the isolated North.

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